Listen to ‘7 Years’ from Blood Red Shoes’ latest, third album, and you’ll hear the line ‘A future perfect, with holes torn in the sides’. Stephen, one half of the two-
piece admits that ‘7 Years’ is an almost allegorical tale of the band’s history, and you can see it. Tree albums in, each of blisteringly good quality, they surely have built a future for themselves of musical success that only they can change the course of. But
it’s true; they haven’t got here without taking chunks out of each other, all the same.
UK dates this year – one is a huge headline show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and we’re delighted that the only other one is in Norwich, the day before. Why is that? Because Norwich has always been really fun for us! We’re doing the London show and we wanted somewhere as a warm up; we had some really cool shows in Norwich Arts Centre, and we were like, ‘fuckin’ let’s go back!’ It’s fun and it’s got a special place in our hearts, especially the Arts Centre from the old days. We were like, ‘let’s go play there, it’ll be perfect.’
S
Do you think in 2013 then, you’ll get the chance to catch up on some stuff
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tephen, you’ve explicitly said that you’re only playing two
that you haven’t even had the time to entertain the idea of before on your heavy touring years? Maybe catch up on some daytime telly?! Haha, I don’t even live anywhere, so I won’t be catching up on any TV! In all honesty, we’re the kind of people that as soon as we’re not on the road, we’ll take a couple of days break max, then we’ll start working on songs, or doing something. We’re just at home on the road, like
right now I’m in my hotel in Brighton, and I come from Brighton! But I’m staying in a hotel while we do some studio work because I don’t live anywhere! It’s ridiculous, but to be honest, I don’t really miss having a home. I’ve just got so used to touring, and that being my home. When I come back to Brighton, I just grab a hotel – it doesn’t really bother me. Maybe if I grow up one day, I might start to want a home.
You might develop a need for throw cushions in your life, or something like that, which call for a sofa, which ultimately denotes the need for a living room and a house… [LAUGHS] Yeah, it could happen.
You’ve treated us to the stream of the new EP online, and it’s got some real balls, this new material. You’re still feeling really creative, it seems? Yeah, like I say, we find it hard to stop. We didn’t have a specific thing, like ‘let’s write a record’, or anything, we were just kinda fucking around, having some fun. A few songs came
in the song, ‘we’re not fighting to be heard, we just wanna watch it burn’.
I felt like it was kinda directionless, like, that’s the line
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